Even before bacon exploded in bits all over the internets, I have to admit I considered myself somewhat of a bacon connoisseur. Â However, my proof of expertise back then was that I had tried all the local grocery store brand bacons and concluded that the Vons brand...

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.— Thomas Jefferson